battle of mogadishu
The historical event the movie Black Hawk Down is based on. Functionally, this Danbooru tag is the generic tag for the battle itself and anything directly related to the United Nations intervention in Somalia during the early 1990s, and should be used regardless of whether the art is referring to the movie, the game, the historical event, or anything in-between.
The Battle of Mogadishu was a part of the larger United Nations-led effort to end the famine and civil war in Somalia during the early 1990s. On 3 October 1993, a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter operating in support of US forces raiding Somali militias was struck by a RPG and crashed in the middle of the hostile city of Mogadishu. The next 24 hours saw the fiercest fighting America had experienced since the Vietnam War, costing the lives of eighteen Americans from the task force, and one Malaysian and one Pakistani from the UN rescue force, with over 90 combined US and UN wounded. Estimates for Somali deaths range from 133 to over 700. One American pilot from the second downed helicopter was captured by Somali forces. The battle dealt the effective end of UN efforts to end Somalia's civil war, and would have a drastic effect on American foreign policy for the rest of the 1990s.
The story of the battle was told in a 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden, titled Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, which was then adapted into a movie by the same name in 2001 by director Ridley Scott. In addition, the 2003 video game Delta Force: Black Hawk Down depicts a fictionalized version of the Somali civil war, as is the same series' reboot campaign releasing in 2025.
See also
External links
- Wikipedia of the Battle
- Operations Room: The Battle of Mogadishu 1993 Part 1 Part 2
